A month has passed since Boris and his sister closed in a monastery and refused to take a throne in the city of Moscow. Residents can explain Godunov’s refusal only by the fact that he was afraid of the authorities. But Shuisky was not so simple and understood that this is all a game. Since … Read more
Emile Zola Nana Anna Kupo, nicknamed Nana, daughter of the drunk laundrywoman Gervaise McCar, and the crippled worker Kupo, died in Paris in 1870, eighteen years of age from smallpox, having survived for several days her two-year-old son and leaving several dozens of her lovers in sorrow. However, her lovers comforted quickly. In addition, a … Read more
ALEXANDER PORFIRYEVICH BORODIN 1833-1887 Borodin is an outstanding composer, a prominent chemist, a tireless scientist and public figure. His musical heritage is quantitatively small, but diverse in content. The composer’s interest in the heroic images of the Russian heroic epos was reflected in the opera and two symphonies, impressive with mighty power, with a grand … Read more
During one of my trips I received an invitation to dine with a rich landowner and hunter, Alexander Mikhailovich G ***. Alexander Mikhalych was not married and did not like women, his society was going to be bachelor and he lived on a broad foot. On that day he expected an important dignitary and experienced … Read more
Most of all I hate the sun, loud human voices and knocking. Frequent, frequent knocking. People are afraid of the fact that if in the evening I hear footsteps and speech in the corridor, I start to cry out. Therefore, my room is special, deceased and best, at the very end of the corridor, e … Read more
R. de la Bretton The Perverted Villager, or Dangers of City Life Before the reader – “a recent story compiled on the basis of genuine letters of its participants.” Young Edmond R ***, the son of a large-scale well-to-do peasant, is taken to the city and placed as pupils to the artist, Mr. Parangon. The … Read more
That spring we finished the ninth grade. Each of us had plans for the future. For example, I was going to become a geologist. Sasha Krieger was supposed to go to the medical institute, because the doctor was his father. Vitka Anikin wanted to become a teacher. Sasha and Vitka were friends with Katya and … Read more
The author at the beginning of the work “as if asks all those who have not seen the panorama of Moscow from the height of the peak of Ivan the Great. After all, Moscow is not a silent mass of cold stones set in some symmetrical order. She has her own peculiarity: “… she has … Read more
Euripides Medea There is a myth about the hero Jason, the leader of the Argonauts. He was the hereditary king of the city of Iolc in Northern Greece, but his elder relative, the powerful Pelius, seized power in the city, and to recover it, Jason had to perform a feat: with the heroic friends on … Read more
We find the rich family of Revolu at the critical moment of their life. Madame Revolution, her sons Denis and Julien, her daughter Rosie learn the terrible news – their father, the owner of the largest notary office in the city – Oscar Revolution – is ruined. He kept a lover-dancer Regina Lorati. But to … Read more